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Re: Capital greek letters and the math font encoding
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- Subject: Re: Capital greek letters and the math font encoding
- From: "J%org Knappen, Mainz" <Joerg.Knappen@uni-mainz.de>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 09:48:59 +0100
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Hans Aberg asked:
> I find this interesting: Do they state a reason for this recommendation,
> so that there is a general principle behind it, like the idea with
> typesetting constant names upright?
You may call it general principle. The following conventions are often
employed by physicists:
Variables: math italics
Vectors: bold math italics
Operators: upright
Vector Operators: bold upright
Tensors: sans serif
Constants are usually also in math italics (generally for physical
constants like speed of light $c$), only \emph{numbers} like e, i, and pi
occur upright depending on the publishers style. Differentials are also
often upright.
If you want to see a journal which follows all those conventions, look at
Il nouvo cimento.
--J"org Knappen